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Frank Mann moved to the woods of Haw Creek in the 1950s and had built a replica of the log cabin in which he had once taught, using it as a one-room schoolhouse museum for children to visit. Courtesy of Richard and Kathy Fornoff.

Dave Cheadle, left, owned Dave Cheadle Art & Sign Co. and was a leading member of the Asheville chapter of the Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship, where Bob Colville, right, a U.S. probation officer, was president in 1980, about the time of this photo. Citizen-Times

Willima Sydney Porter, pen name O. Henry, in front of the home of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Coleman on Weaverville Road, where he spent time during the year before his death. Courtesy of NC Collection/Pack Memorial Library

Student Virginia Howard learns dulcimer from John Jacob Niles in this photo by Doris Ullman, courtesy of the University of Kentucky Art Museum. Doris Ullman/Courtesy of University of Kentucky Art Museum

This silver tea strainer made by William Dodge is part of a traveling exhibition commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into World War I opening March 27 at Mountain Gateway Museum in Old Fort. Courtesy of NC Dept. of Natural and Cultural Resources

In 1942, Citizen-Times writer Jack Ruffing and photographer Frank Clodfelter joined the Hazel Creek Club and their Plott hounds on an outing to a private reserve in the Great Smoky Mountains. Citizen-Times

This photo of canoers from Keystone Camp, circa 1920, comes from the new book, “Summer Camps around Asheville and Hendersonville” by Melanie English (Arcadia Publishing, arcadiapublishing.com). Courtesy of Arcadia Publishing

The Miller Meeting House, established in 1847, is shown here after James Buttrick of Epworth, England, added a second story. The Miller Meeting House was a forerunner of the Trinity United Methodist Church on Haywood Road. Courtesy photo

The 1937 Siler Family Meeting portrait showed an African-American man on the left. ) Emilis Siler “belonged to the Siler family when a small boy," according to an inscription on back of the photo. He apparently often attended the annual Family Meeting. Emilis Siler is listed in the 1870 census for Macon County, age 14, which would give a birth year of . 1856. COURTESY SILER FAMILY

A photograph of the YMI Band, which specialized in classical and jazz. Many musicians went on to colleges and universities and became well-known musicians and teachers. Retired music teacher Mamie Howell identified the two men seated on the floor: right, her father, Charles Thomas Howell; left, Dr. William J. Trent, head of the YMI. The photo has been dated to 1918. Photo courtesy North Carolina Collection, Pack Square Public Library

By 1948, when this photo was taken, Olive Tilford Dargan, 79-year-old author of plays, poems, novels, and stories had moved permanently from Swain County to Bluebonnet Lodge on Balsam Ave. in West Asheville. Courtesy photo

Climax locomotive, 1916

The Climax Manufacturing Company’s geared, swivel-truck locomotive, suited for logging in mountainous areas, first went into production in 1888. The Class A Climax shown here was used by Louis Carr, a West Virginia lumberman, in the Pink Beds, where he'd bought Pisgah Forest land from George Vanderbilt in 1912. His company, Norwood Lumber Company, had first come to the area to log forests in Swain County. In addition to two Climaxes there, Carr used a Shay engine, which had gears on the wheels, rather than the axles, and a boiler and cylinders on balancing sides, rather than a boiler in the middle with a cylinder on either side. The Climax was more maneuverable, but the Shay easier to maintain. In 1916, Carr’s Norwood mill burned down. In 1929, his Swain acreage was included within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The photo comes from Transylvania County Library, which contains, in its the Rowell Bosse North Carolina Room, much information about the Carr Lumber Company. The Climax website (climaxlocomotives.com) lists locations that had bought the locomotive. Carr is shown to have had four in Pisgah Forest. Champion, by contrast, had ten in various locations. One of apparently 22 surviving Climax locomotives resides at the Cradle of Forestry.